AccidentalTechnologyInformationMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

GOOGLE LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 6, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for GOOGLE LLC →4 incidents on file

Google Inc. notified the California Attorney General that a third-party benefits management vendor mistakenly sent a document containing employees' names and Social Security numbers to a benefits manager at another company. The recipient deleted the document and notified the vendor. Google investigated and found no evidence of misuse. Affected employees were offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

Mar 29, 2016

Begins

May 6, 2016

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_7254b3aa8a545e0d2016-05-06Verified

Name: GOOGLE LLC
norm: google
Domain: google.com

Name: GOOGLE LLC
norm: google
Domain: google.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 29, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 9, 2016
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Filed notification with California Attorney General
Third party: via third-party vendor

During the incident: Conducted an investigation to determine the facts
Working with the vendor to help ensure that this type of issue does not happen again
Offering identity protection and credit monitoring services for 24 months at no cost
Changes made: Working with the vendor to help ensure that this type of issue does not happen again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGMay 6 · first

California State AGMay 6 · first · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-61707
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 6, 2016
Raw hash: 1976ad8edbd9ec8d1edb4a8abf3da73efc04c9e82771a64678e9021346bb747d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGOOGLE LLC

Victim entityGOOGLE LLC

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseConducted an investigation to determine the facts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov